Example sentences of "just as they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 2 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 3 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 4 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 5 | After several such pairings , the dogs learned to salivate to the music just as they had previously salivated to the food . |
| 6 | In the Balkans the arrival of capitalist modes of production as the gift of foreign nationals provoked — just as they had in Poland — a rise in Bosnian and Serbian nationalism . |
| 7 | Although the Poles could have exercised a military option in the north just as they had done in Silesia , by this time their involvement in a war against the infant Soviet state , over territories and borders in the eastern provinces , made this a logistical impossibility . |
| 8 | Just as they had done on May Day , the anti-Communist demonstrators who marched across Red Square , after the official parade , left Gorbachev in no doubt as to his own unpopularity and that of his regime . |
| 9 | The rumours killed Rachel Jackson before hubby took office , just as they had killed his 1824 presidential bid . |
| 10 | But with the tide of war now running against the Allies , many of the natives decided to join the winning side , just as they had in Dutch Timor the previous winter . |
| 11 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 12 | England defender Pallister was then handed the responsibility of keeping United in continental competition but , just as they had failed in a penalty shoot-out against Videoton in the Cup Winners ' Cup in 1985 , so they were again to be engulfed in misery . |
| 13 | But in the short run , as John Donne observed , men lived and believed just as they had before . |
| 14 | Dealers would scream down the blower : " Did you see The Sunday Times last week Sir ? " knowing that he would probably have missed the relevant bit , just as they had . |
| 15 | The androids had killed her sister , just as they had almost killed her . |
| 16 | However , just as they had formerly worked to obtain their fortune , so also the nouveaux riches were obliged to employ material goods to assert their social pretensions . |
| 17 | The jacarandas were blooming purple , just as they had in Rhodesia during the civil war . |
| 18 | If they were to set up their own company in America instead , and negotiate a distribution deal with an American major just as they had done with Island when first setting up Virgin — then that profit margin could be inflated from around 18 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 19 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 20 | The dark eyes slid over her , just as they had earlier , seeming to strip the clothes from her skin . |
| 21 | In the distance she heard the faint sounds of voices from the pool , and her dazed eyes rested on the green palm trees out on the terrace , while the dim light of the courtyard shut out the horrors of the morning , and she saw the gleaming white tower of a mosque against the deep sky and the far-off mountains , just as they had looked in the travel brochures . |
| 22 | I made a point of saying to the Indian Ministers whom I met that , just as they had announced elections in the Punjab , so it would be excellent if they could start a political process in Kashmir so that there would be people representing the Kashmiris with whom the Government could talk . |
| 23 | They scattered for safety as a coach pulled up ; it had begun its final tumultuous dash from Trafalgar Square just as they had hammered at the door . |
| 24 | Overcrowding , insanitary conditions and inadequate services ( particularly medical , educational and cultural ) , together with the accompanying problems of health risks and rising crime rates , began to make their appearance in Spanish cities in the 1950s , just as they had already appeared in large connurbations elsewhere in the world . |
| 25 | Speaker 12 used Creole syntax and phonology and was judged to be black by the majority of respondents , just as they had judged Speaker 2 ( = 11 ) to be black in her " Creole " guise . |
| 26 | Britain 's economic problems added to the sensitivity of her leaders , and to the conviction that the Americans were trying to undermine the British Empire just as they had destroyed that of the Dutch in Indonesia in the late 1940s . |
| 27 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 28 | Just as they had that other time when he had briefly held her , her senses were reacting with a will of their own . |
| 29 | You found the dead embedded in the walls of the trenches , heads , legs and half-bodies , just as they had been shovelled out of the way by the picks and shovels of the working party . |